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Achtung Bono

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Released
  
12 September 2005

Producer
  
Carl Wark

Artist
  
Half Man Half Biscuit

Label
  
Probe Plus

Length
  
40:34

Achtung Bono (2005)
  
CSIAmbleside (2008)

Release date
  
12 September 2005

Genre
  
Post-punk

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Recorded
  
Frog Studios, Warrington

Similar
  
Back in the DHSS, CSI:Ambleside, Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral, Voyage to the Bottom of the Road, 90 Bisodol (Crimond)

Half man half biscuit achtung bono full album


Achtung Bono is the tenth album by UK indie rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 2005.

Contents

In 2010, a Facebook campaign was mounted with the aim of saving BBC 6 Music from threatened closure, and as a sign of protest to get "Joy Division Oven Gloves" from Achtung Bono to No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart on 12 April 2010. In the event, it entered the Singles Chart that week at No. 56 and the Independent Singles Chart at No. 3. Whether or not the campaign was influential, BBC 6 Music was saved.

Critical reception

Reviews were generally favourable:

  • Stewart Mason, Allmusic: "One of their finest albums".
  • Roger Holland, PopMatters: "Achtung Bono is a worthy addition to the HMHB canon".
  • Ben Granger, Spike Magazine: "This is probably not one of Half Man Half Biscuit’s best albums. And yet its [sic] still fantastic".
  • Dom Passantino, Stylus Magazine: "UK album of the year, by a landslide".

    • Songs

    1Restless Legs1:53
    2Corgi Registered Friends3:40
    3For What Is Chatteris2:04

    References

    Achtung Bono Wikipedia
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